RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES VOL. 9, ES2004, doi:10.2205/2007ES000274, 2007
[2] Globalization, according to an American scholar Helda Mcgrew, is an expansion, deepening and acceleration of interrelations in all aspects of modern human life. It embodies the idea of integration of countries into the world community and their general development. Globalization concerns various fields of personal activity, from culture to crime, from finance to spirituality; therefore it reasonably causes set of discussions and disputes. The globalization becomes the mean of concentration of wealth and power in hands of particular people and groups. In that way, by bringing up some facts, we can see that three richest people in the world hold total wealth which exceeds the prosperity of 47 poorest countries and 475 richest hold fortunes that is bigger than the wealth of the half of the humanity. Correlation between the richest and poorest 1/5 of the world's population is 1:75. Meanwhile, in 1973 the gap between the profits of the most developed and the least developed countries could have been rated 44:1. Globalization has enabled the developed countries and the largest transnational corporations to take advantage of more powerful productive forces. The large capital used these forces for the further enrichment. As a result, in the beginning of XXI century the gap of the profits between the richest and the poorest among countries has increased to the ratio of 72:1. It is rather a disturbing tendency, taking into account the increase in the amount of the world's conflicts, growth of the level of corruption, terrorism, crime, lack of access to the qualitative education for a lot of nations, increasing ecology problems and the people's overall health maintenance.
[3] Such actual problems and tendencies, as recognition of national sovereignty, national idea, national culture, religion, language and overall the entity of a human strictly in the borders of the exact state or territory are gradually being replaced by uncontrollable processes of globalization, unification and integration of all humanity into the organic whole. In this way with every coming day the world is becoming smaller and the human development not depending on its national, ethnical and religious belonging is becoming the society's main priority that is superior to any governmental or national interests.
[4] This is why we carry out special measurement of globalization that consists of different factors that together evaluate the integration, interrelation and a general change of the country's development. In 2006 the evaluation was done for 58 countries and the accent was put on three countries of our study - Ukraine, United States and Russia [Zgurovsky, 2007]. In 2007 we carried out a similar calculation for 60 countries in general and in more detail for three countries of our study. In this article we will compare the two sets of data in order to analyze the change and prove the modern tendencies.
Citation: 2007), Risks and gains of globalization for developing countries, Russ. J. Earth Sci., 9, ES2004, doi:10.2205/2007ES000274.
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